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A New Place to Discuss Wendell Berry

A New Place to Discuss Wendell Berry

Introducing a new Over the Field chat community

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Hadden Turner
Jun 16, 2025
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Dear all,

For a while now I have been running a Wendell Berry Reading Group via Zoom for paid subscribers. We have met once every two months or so to discuss essays such as: The Agrarian Standard; Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer; and Quantity and Form. These sessions have been times of rich and convivial discussion — and have inspired the creation of essays such as The Cost of Reading Wendell Berry.

I will continue to host these Zoom group discussions, and the next one will be held on the 26th June at 8.30 PM UK time (Zoom invite can be found below) on Mr. Berry’s essay, The Future of Agriculture. However, I am aware that for many subscribers, the dates and times of the discussions haven’t always worked out. This is the challenge of having participants in diverse regions from New Zealand, UK, USA, and Canada!

So, in addition to the Zoom Wendell Berry Reading Group, I have set up an additional reading group using the Substack Chat function. Every fortnight, I will post the title of an essay, poem or short story by Wendell Berry for participants to read over those two weeks, along with some questions to get discussions going. Participants in the chat group can pose their own questions, observations, and comments, and can also interact with each other.

I want this chat group to be an online space were folk who want to delve deeper into Wendell Berry’s writings, and the topics of agrarianism and farming more generally, can meet to discuss questions, test out ideas, and have conversations that, who knows, may one day lead to in-person meet-ups.

The chat group is open to all paid subscribers of Over the Field. A paid subscription gives you access to both Wendell Berry reading groups (Zoom and Substack Chat), access to paywalled essays/reflections, and one-on-one Zoom chats with me (or even in-person meet ups if you are ever in the Yorkshire Dales).

In light of the launch, for the next two weeks only I will be offering a 25% discount on paid subscriptions, which reduces the cost to £15/$21 for one year.

Get 25% off for 1 year

Any questions please email me at overthefield@protonmail.com

Thanks all for your support, it means a lot to this young writer

Hadden


Zoom discussion codes for 26th June, Future of Agriculture

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